| Show t t 5 I i i f 1 f i J g ii v 5 54 S I t 4 I gw 1 t Ct ft I Q S St t 2 v c 1 t tv p j v Li j jv v 3 e j jS S jI u uJ J e et t zi jj S 5 4 c r 4 S SS v S S p pp p ii 1 t tS tc S 5 c S S S 5 S wEt Billy new Middleweight Champion r Pitcher Pi Durham Has lias a Most Host Remarkable Season i Some three months ago aso Louis Dur Durham Durham Durham ham the Giants new recruit was pitching for the Dusty Dust Rhoades team an amateur club named after atter the th ball park which Mr Rhoades of ot Louis Louls Louisville ville runs as an adjunct to o his saloon In the west end of the Kentucky me metropolis metropolis metropolis Louis had just been canned by the Louisville managers as not good goodenough goodenough goodenough enough for the Colonels He had hd sought refuge among the lowly low Dusty Dust who tackled nothing fiercer than the Cuban Giants Glant Along Jlong came the Covington Ky Blues Blue one ope day to play pIa the Dusty Louis went In to pitch This was w s only a few weeks ago Louie Loule and sent the best in stock across the thc plate for the Covington Ky h Blues and the Blues made mer merry merr merry ry r They The soaked Louies curves ever everand everand and anor hither and yon on After Atter a few Innings Louis retired The Covington Blues had done to him all that it Is possible to do to a pitcher A few weeks after atter the Covington H Ky Blues knocked him out of ot the box the New e York Giants hand real reul National league dollars over to the Indianapolis club for Louies release ami that It Is I a bargain bar aln Dur hams career this season is without a doubt the most remarkable case of down and up in baseball records Louie Loule hiked to the Central league The Fort Wayne Ind team gave him hima himI a I try tr He lasted two Innings and was told that would be about all the sam sample sample sampIe pIe that would be wanted from him Once more adrift Louie Loule went to In Iii He heard that Indianapolis polls was hard up for pitchers and begged Carr to give him a chance Carr had been thinking of or signing Amos Rusie Rusle as a last resort but he quite come to Louie Loule Durham But Louie Loule begged so hard that Carr gave him a chance and Louie Loule was rapped hard har f But he begged for an another another another other chance I 1 feel reel myself coming he Ie said sald Just one more mor station and Ill arrive all right Carr gave him another chance and Louie Louic began to tomake tomake tOmake make good Durham has won ton four fo r doubleheaders this season He shut shutout shutout shutout out his former Louisville mates twice In an afternoon when the Colonels were fighting for the lead in the Amer American AmerIcan Amerlean ican lean association This is the same Durham who failed to o make good with Salt Lake in the Pacific National league with Charlie Reilly as manager I |
